Word: governance
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...Drown Your Sorrows” party this Friday—say they will now focus their resources on addressing policy issues rather than dwelling on victories or losses past. “But today is a beginning, not an end. Now it is time to govern,” wrote Dems President Eric P. Lesser ’07 in an e-mail to his organization. The Dems saw victory for three of five campaigns the group supported, for which students made more than 10,000 phone calls and knocked on close to 20,000 doors, according to Lesser...
...Democrats win one house of Congress, this situation won't be that unusual. The title of Mayhew's book on this subject is Divided We Govern and that's become increasingly true. Twenty out of the last 30 years, the government has been divided. The conventional wisdom has always been that voters actually prefer having the wheels of power paralyzed so that politicians can't do anything too stupid. But maybe it's quite the opposite, and voters know exactly what they are doing...
...recognize the jurisdiction of each other. Efforts to reunify Cyprus have consistently failed, most recently when U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan proposed a comprehensive plan that would have compensated Greek Cypriots for land lost to Turks and ensured the security of Turkish Cypriots, reunifying the island under a single government. In separate referendums, 76% of Greek Cypriots rejected the plan; Turkish Cypriots voted overwhelmingly in favor. Cyprus was admitted to the European Union in 2004 as a divided island - a complicated arrangement that means while the E.U. considers all Cypriots its citizens, it only recognizes the government in the south...
Iraq's national-unity government is not united and does not govern. Iraqi security forces, the centerpiece of the U.S.'s efforts for stability, are ineffective or, even worse, combatants in the country's escalating civil war. President George W. Bush says the U.S.'s goal is a unified and democratic Iraq, but we have no way to get there. As Americans search for answers, there is one obvious alternative: split Iraq into separate Kurdish, Sunni and Shi'ite states...
...Texas race, however, is raising larger questions about the Republican Party's ability to govern, says Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University, the alma mater of First Lady Laura Bush. After Hurricane Katrina and the state's embrace of evacuees from New Orleans, Perry was touted as a possible vice presidential material for 2008 and jumped in the polls (to 52% approval). But this summer, his ratings sank over a variety of issues, ranging from school finance (a perennial problem in Texas) to his vision of toll roads speeding NAFTA goodies through the border. The realization that...